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Previously, their minimum net capital requirement was only $250,000 with an early warning requirement of $300,000, although the relevant minimums for such large broker-dealers were the much larger amounts resulting from the requirement to maintain net capital of 2% of aggregate debit items with an early warning requirement at 5% of aggregate ...
The National Securities Markets Improvement Act of 1996 is an amendment to United States federal securities laws in with the aim of promote efficiency and capital formation in the financial markets, and to amend the Investment Company Act of 1940 to promote more efficient management of mutual funds, protect investors, and provide more effective and less burdensome regulation between states and ...
State laws governing issuance and trading of securities are commonly referred to as blue sky laws and mostly deal with fraud and fraud investigation privileges, registration of securities, and registration of broker-dealers. In general, states allow injunctions to stop businesses from potentially fraudulent activity and states give broad ...
Many states also regulate broker-dealers under separate state securities laws (called "blue sky laws"). [ 4 ] The 1934 Act defines "broker" as "any person engaged in the business of effecting transactions in securities for the account of others", and defines "dealer" as "any person engaged in the business of buying and selling securities for ...
The NASD was founded on September 3, 1936 as Investment Bankers Conference, Inc. [9] and, on August 7, 1939, was registered under the name National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc. [10] as a national securities association with the SEC under authority granted by the 1938 Maloney Act amendments to the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, [11] which allowed it to supervise the conduct of its ...
In order to state a claim, the investor is required to show that their economic loss arose because of the insolvency of their broker-dealer and not because of fraud, [13] misrepresentation, [14] or bad investment decisions. In certain circumstances, securities or cash may not exist in full based upon a customer's statement.
Some state laws and broker/dealer policies also require the Series 63 examination (known as the Uniform Securities Agent State Law Exam). [ citation needed ] [ 1 ] A registered representative ("RR" or "rep" or "broker") is authorized to sell a large array of securities such as stocks, bonds, options, mutual funds, limited partnership programs ...
Van Kampen American Capital: Morgan Stanley: 1997 Bankers Trust: Alex. Brown & Sons: Bankers Trust (BT Alex. Brown & Sons) 1997 Swiss Bank Corporation: Dillon, Read & Co. Swiss Bank Corporation (Warburg Dillon Read) 1997 Travelers Group: Salomon Brothers: Travelers Group (Salomon Smith Barney) 1997 Dean Witter Discover & Co. Morgan Stanley ...